There oughtta be a sci-fi short story competition using this for a basis - what happens when aliens eventually come across this bizarre piece of junk in space?
original budget estimates for operations are now too low due to inflation
the entire budget is 1/4000 the military budget, but instead of shoring up this rounding error to make sure that one of our country’s most impressive engineering feats stays usable, we could always just throw it out to bomb more brown kids.
That orbit is better described as passing through the habitable zone. How this would affect potential life, I have no clue, but it certainly isn’t a stable orbit in the habitable zone like earth or mars
Another article said it had 6.6 times earth’s mass, and now I’m really curious about the diameter and atmospheric composition. It sounds like it’d be a big Venus that alternates between freezing and boiling.
In a certain way, it does feel close. We can’t figure out how to go faster than light, but we could theoretically get to a significant fraction of c and 20 years isn’t such a long time to plan for in terms of getting a probe there to start relaying messages that take 20 years to get back.
I mean, it’s the span of a career, but people could conceivably work on the launch and live to see it return data.
This is Barbara Streissan publicity when you had never thought about her for 50 years. We must all agree to a ban to stop China from working on it, while we “debate American freedom”
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